J’lem opera festival launched in David’s Tower

22.02.2011                      18.Adar l, 5771

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J’lem opera festival launched in David’s Tower

Productions will enable people to discover the quality of Israeli arts and culture, says tourism minister.

The walls of Jerusalem's Old City once again echoed with impassioned cries from the Tower of David on Monday afternoon – not the voices of guards or soldiers protecting the city from invaders this time, but the voices of tenor Yotam Cohen and soprano Mirela Gradinaru from the Israeli Opera.
Accompanied by the opera’s pianist, the pair wowed journalists in one of the citadel’s chambers with arias and duets from popular operas….